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Shopping can be a serious business.  But it can also be fun!  Blue Dot has partnered with Jellyfish.com to bring you Smack Shopping, tailored specifically for Blue Dot users.

We’ve chosen some of the most popular products from Blue Dot users’ wishlists.  You’ll have the opportunity to buy these products and recieve a cash-back discount.  While each item is for sale, the price will continuously drop.  The longer you wait to buy, the more you’ll save.

But there is a limited quantity available.  Wait too long, and the other shoppers will get a great deal leaving you with nothing!

Some example products and cash-back savings from recent Smack Shopping events:
80GB Video iPod - 41% off
Canon Powershot Digital Camera - 50% off
XBox 360 - 46% off
TiVo Series 3 HD DVR - 23% off

Shoppers also have a chance to win free prizes, like a Nintendo Wii!

When: Tuesday, March 6th, 1 PM Pacific Time (3 PM Central)
Where: www.jellyfish.com/smack/bluedot

Isilon Systems , Seattle’s leader in clustered storage, has announced 10 new additions to its growing community of customers who are driving innovation in the emerging world of Web 2.0 content and services. Linden Lab (creator of the Second Life 3D virtual world), Current TV, Dailymotion, FlipClip, Imeem, Jump TV, Pandora TV, PhotoBox, Revver and Skyrock are the latest companies to select Isilon IQ clustered storage as the core technology for access and storage of the ever-expanding user-created digital content assets that are a hallmark of the next generation of Internet interactivity.”The emergence of Web 2.0 is ushering in a breakthrough in human-Internet interaction that is marked by massive amounts of content — content created not just for users but by users. This has far-reaching implications for commerce, human relationships and the role of technology in people’s lives,” said Sujal Patel, founder and chief technology officer, Isilon Systems. “The continuing trend of Web 2.0 innovators basing their digital content storage and access solutions on Isilon IQ technology is validation of our scalable, reliable software-based clustered systems.”

The digital content explosion is manifested not only in the immense size of digital content files, but also by the graphically-rich, highly-interactive nature of the Web 2.0 world. The emergence of photo- and video-sharing sites, such as Current TV, Dailymotion, FlipClip, Imeem, PhotoBox, Revver and Skyrock, and the creation of interactive communities and 3D virtual worlds such as Second Life, all involve producing, storing and accessing immense volumes of digital assets — in the form of images, textures, audio, video and other types of digital content.

Marchex, along with subsidiary IndustryBrains, today announced that since January 1st of this year, it has signed contextual ad agreements with seven publishers across a range of verticals including Business & Finance, Information Technology, and Home & Living. The Marchex deals will include publishers InvestorVillage.com, Homes and Land, CIO Index.com, and WorldGolf.com among others.

With the agreements in place, Marchex will provide ad solutions to certain sections of the publishers’ websites, and to the websites’ targeted newsletters and blogs. Advertisers, in turn, will be able to place their product/service listings directly on premium and specific websites, and/or sections of pages within a website.

Marchex already has relationships with more than 100 vertically-focused online publishers, and the seven new publishers add to the brand-name roster. BusinessWeek Online, The Motley Fool, and the Ziff Davis’s online properties are only a few of the notable publishing brands Marchex currently deals with.

In a press statement, IndustryBrains CEO Eric Matlick said, “As the company that created the site-specific approach to contextual advertising more than five years ago, we are very pleased to build upon our leadership position by adding seven high quality online publishers to our platform since the beginning of the year. As 2007 progresses, we look forward to further increasing our market share while helping all of our new partners more fully realize the value of their online brands, and providing advertisers with direct access to many additional highly targeted audiences.”

Bellevue-based InfoSpace Inc. is vying to become the Google or Yahoo of mobile-search technology by becoming fast friends with Fast, of Oslo, Norway.

As a video game town (Nintendo, Microsoft, Real, EA), and a search engine capitol, you’d think we would’ve connected the two fields a bit sooner.  But in a first step of many more to come,  StumbleUpon Video will soon be available on the TV via a customized version made for the Nintendo Wii.

StumbleUpon is a cross between personalization and serendipity that  takes you to unexpected web pages that fit your interests as defined by your self categorization and your subsequent thumbs up or thumbs evaluation.  The company is celebrating its 5th anniversary tonight and is also releasing version 3.0 of its browser toolbar, which will integrate video along with standard web page stumbling.
Sending video from the web to the TV is something that no shortage of companies are doing or are seeking to do. More than 6 million Wii consoles have been sold since they went on sale last Fall.

Following a 41 percent reduction in its work force last month, Jobster has turned about face by inking a deal to become the exclusive job search provider for Facebook. According to the Wall Street Journal, Jobster will unveil new features that will allow employers to post jobs for free to the site and for job hunters to attach video clips to their online profiles. Jobster’s switch to free job postings is an attempt “to make a large dent in Monster’s billion dollar a year revenue stream” opines TechCrunch.

Jobster is the first career development website to make extensive use of Web 2.0 technologies to help individuals connect with people, information and opportunities to help them further their careers. In an industry first, the new Jobster offers employers unlimited free personalized job postings, enabling jobseekers to meet the hiring manager or recruiter for a particular position, and immediately presents employers with potential matching candidates.

Amazon.com is now offering RSS feeds of its daily “Gold Box” special offers. Subscribe and get the money-saving value of daily deals in your favorite news reader or live feed page.The A-Team has also announced another new service coming soon: “Amazon Unbox on TiVo.”

Now, in addition to PCs and portable devices, movies and television shows will be available to download directly to a customerís TiVo box for playback on their television set. This is the first service that uniquely allows for downloadable broadband video to be integrated with programming recorded from TV so the consumer can easily navigate all viewing optionsÖ Customers can purchase television episodes for $1.99, purchase most movies for between $9.99 and $14.99, or rent movies starting at $1.99. As an added bonus, all purchased videos are automatically stored in each customerís ìYour Media Libraryî at Amazon.com for future access and download.

A new Google Webmaster Central tool has been introduced this week that lets site owners view a much larger sample of inbound links to pages on their site. Unlike the Google “link: operator,” this data is much more comprehensive and can be classified, filtered, and even downloaded.

All you need to do is verify site ownership via the Google Webmaster Central system to see this information.

While Google does limit the total amount of data available for each type of link, the increase in data is substantial. As an example, Danny Sullivan notes that with the old tool, Google reports ~3,000 links into his new Website whereas the new tool reports 57,000. Thatís quite a leap!

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